F1 tornado, Munden to Narka, Kansas, June 13, 2001

1. F040 to 72 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. F173 to 112 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. F2113 to 157 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. F3158 to 206 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. F4207 to 260 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. F5261 to 318 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

F1

Date

June 13, 2001

Touchdown

8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)

Path length

8.0 miles (12.9 km)

Path width

300 yards (274 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$120,000

County

Republic County

Touchdown point

39.930, -97.500

Lift-off point

40.020, -97.420

Record number

885

Thunderstorms developed over north central kansas and became severe producing large hail strong winds and 2 tornadoes (discussed separately).

A tornado formed just north of Munden and moved northeast doing considerable damage to several farmsteads before moving into Nebraska.

A tornado formed southwest of Narka and moved northeast doing some damage to the community of Narka before crossing into Nebraska.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

3 minutes of warning. NWS TOP issued a tornado warning for this county at 01:43 UTC, 3 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 02:00 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 01:05 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
308 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

CHCS FOR PCPN TNGT/TMRW MAIN CONCERN.

APPEARS SFC BNDRY ABT TO COME TO A SLOW CRAWL OVER WRN KS. GOOD
PRESSURE FALLS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO PRECURSOR OF BIGGER THINGS TO
COME LATER TNGT AND THURSDAY. FOR THE SHORTER TERM...ATTENTION IS
DRAWN ALG SFC BNDRY WCNTRL KS. LATEST RUCII HAS UPPER WAVE MVG INTO
WRN KS...AND THE TAIL END OF THIS APPARENTLY REASON FOR SOME MID LVL
COOLING NEAR WRN CWA THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...THIS WAVE LIFTS OUT TO
THE NORTHEAST...DRAWING SFC BNDRY NORTHWEST...AND NOTHING OF NOTE
UNTIL LATER TONIGHT AS MAIN UPPER SYSTEM GETS CLOSER. BOTTOM
LINE...UNLESS SOMETHING FIRES THIS EVENING CLOSE TO WRN CWA...MAY
HAVE TO AWAIT STGR DYNAMICS OF WRN SYSTEM FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION.
APPEARS MOST ACTION WILL BE EITHER LATE TONIGHT OR THURSDAY. EACH
MODEL RUN HAS BEEN A LITTLE SLOWER WITH PROGRESSION OF WRN SYSTEM.
THUS WOULD SUSPECT AT LEAST THE ERN PART OF CWA TO BE VULNERABLE TO
STG CONVECTION ALONG SFC DRY LINE ON THURSDAY. LITTLE IF ANY
CLOUDINESS EXPECTED BEHIND THIS DRY LINE ON THURSDAY...WITH COOLING
STILL LAGGING BEHIND. SO TEMPS IN D+RYER AIR ON THURSDAY INTO THE 80S
LOOK GOOD. IF LATER MODEL RUNS CONTINUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF BNDRY
TMRW...MAY NEED TO ADD SOME EVENING POPS ERN PTN CWA TMRW. FOR NOW
AM GOING DRY. CLEAR SAILING REST OF FCST.

.TOP...NONE

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
730 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0728 PM    SCANDIA                   KS    1 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
757 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0755 PM    3 SE REPUBLIC             KS    .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
806 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
S
0805 PM    5 NW MUNDEN               KS    .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
833 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
e
0829 PM    4 NW MUNDEN               KS    .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

0832 PM    3 NW MUNDEN               KS    .88 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   REPUBLIC

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2001 tornado in KansasEvery tornado in Kansas since 1950Warnings in force in Kansas nowThe forecast where you are

39 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.